Englishry, or Englescherie, is a legal name given, in the reign of William the Conqueror, to the presentment of the fact that a person slain was an Englishman. If an unknown man was found slain, he was presumed to be a Norman, and the hundred was fined accordingly, unless it could be proved that he was English. Englishry, if established, excused t...
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• (n.) A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. • (n.) The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
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Legal term used to denote those not of Norman stock after the Norman conquest of England 1066. A person's ethnic status would determine, for example, how they were treated by courts: murder cases in...
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Eng'lish·ry noun 1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [ Obsolete]
Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. « A general massacre of the
Englishry .»
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the fact of being English, esp. by birth. · a population that is English or of English descent: the Englishry of Ireland.
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